{"id":1966,"date":"2022-01-20T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/uk\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T09:28:53","slug":"coffee-improves-your-reaction-to-moving-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/uk\/2022\/01\/20\/coffee-improves-your-reaction-to-moving-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Improves Your Reaction to Moving Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably know how much coffee can help improve cycling performance but new research suggests that caffeine also increases your detection accuracy for moving targets. Researchers from the University of Waterloo explored caffeine’s effects on dynamic visual skills in the first study of its kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“A lot of what happens in our environment is moving \u2013 like trying to cross a busy intersection as a pedestrian or finding something on a shelf as you’re walking through the aisles of a grocery store. Testing visual acuity under dynamic conditions can provide more information about our functional performance in these scenarios than traditional static visual acuity measurements alone,” said co-author of the study<\/a> Dr Kristine Dalton of the Waterloo’s School of Optometry & Vision Science.<\/p>\n

Dynamic visual acuity is crucial for cyclists<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The clarity or sharpness of your vision, also known as visual acuity, is your ability to detect and recognize small details. Dynamic visual acuity skills are especially important when you or objects around you are moving. In cycling, it refers to a cyclist\u2019s clarity of vision while in motion or while tracking a moving object. There are a lot of applications for this ability, regardless of what type of cycling you prefer. Here are just a few of the most striking examples.<\/p>\n